Word: naming
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...slights little Toady's attempts to please. Toady, by the way, is the only man in college who is more exclusive than Doggy; for there are one or two men out of the first thirteen of the X. Y. Z. that Doggy honors with his friendship, if that name can be applied to so cold-blooded an intimacy. But Toady does n't care for any one outside of the first thirteen, though we can hardly call his attendance on them friendship, as they don't pay the slightest regard...
...Bowen, was then elected on a single ballot. On the second ballot for Second Marshal, Mr. Crocker carried the election by a good majority over Mr. Jacobs. Four ballots were taken before electing the Third Marshal. Mr. Burr led in the first three ballots, but after Mr. Jacobs's name, according to the rules of the meeting, was dropped, Mr. Mercer won the election...
...Freshman crew last year in an eight-oar. As far as the eight-oar "championship" goes, then, Harvard has a perfect right to that title (if she has the bad taste to choose to claim it), and is justified in sending a crew to England under that name, if she wishes. If Cornell (in event of our accepting a challenge from them) were to make some definite preparations for sending their crew abroad if they beat us, outsiders would then think they really meant business; but as matters stand, their only avowed object is to beat us, and then send...
...unbroken expanse. It should be remembered that any man who can stay on his machine has a chance in this race, and that he will have a half-mile start if that is necessary to equalize him with the scratch man. Let no one despair, therefore, but enter his name anyhow, and, if not satisfied with the handicap, no one is obliged to start. Out of thirty bicycles said to be in college, surely six or eight men can be found willing to enter. Every time a man is beaten he gets a longer start in the next...
...have lived ever since, though I never grow old. I am a sort of Phoenix. My occupations are various, but at present I am stumping the State for Butler. You have never heard of me, I dare say! Pity! pity! time you did! Let me introduce myself. My name is Humbug; and this old fellow here is an old boxing-teacher of mine, who taught me so well that I used him up long ago. His name is Class Feeling...